Welcome to learning Korean! Here I provide beginner Korean study material to get you started out with learning the language. With basic grammar, key vocab, and more to help you along the way.
After getting down Sino-Korean and native numbers, another hurdle is right there for beginners- Korean counters. Counter particles have to be attached to the word you are counting and it isn’t as simple as a universal counter.
There are a lot of different counter particles to be used for animals, people, books, glasses, and more. Each is either paired with sino or native numbers. Today I’ll cover the most popular and widely used ones!
Today we’re getting into Korean prepositions and positions! Learn your right from your left and up and down (just like EXID). This’ll be quick and easy vocab so let’s get into it.
Today is 한글날 or Hangul Day, which is a Korean holiday dedicated to celebrating the Korean writing system and its creator King Sejong! So to commemorate, I’ll go through a bit on Hangul’s history, King Sejong, and some resources on how to learn Hangul yourself.
If you are feeling that you have a grip on present tense conjugation in Korean the next step is to go into the past! Past tense in Korean might seem tricky at first, but going through a few examples will help a lot. So I’ll introduce the conjugation and we can get started.
Here’s another helpful typing game to pair with the Hancom typing game I’ve mentioned before! Sam, the creator, shared it with me and I really think it can be a great asset to add in when trying to master your Korean typing.
A useful phrase to learn when starting out is “from A to B” in Korean. Describe directions and locations, time, sequences, and more by using these 3 simple particles. Now in some cases, you’ll use 에서 or 부터 but I’ll get into when to use which so let’s start!
A while ago I touched on Korean body vocab, now it’s time to dive deeper and go inside the body to the organs! I’ll cover Korean organ vocab from internal and external, along with bones, muscles, and more.
Konglish comes from Korean + English and is the term used to refer to Korean loanwords from English. But there are more words in Korean grabbed from than just English! The biggest would be Chinese which is the origin of Sino-Korean words and numbers, which you can learn more about in my Sino-Korean introductory post.
Summer is in full swing here with many days reaching over 30+ Celsius (86 °F) so let’s get into some Korean summer vocab! I’ll also cover some popular activities during the summer that people enjoy and related vocabulary.
‘What’ is always a keyword in a language, and important to growing your vocab and skills but there are multiple ways to say ‘What’ in Korean! Which one you use depends on the information and the words’ location in a sentence. Don’t worry though, I’ll run through all this simply and give examples to help you master what you need to know.